Chapter Summaries

Gu He mistook Hai Bodong for a shrunken, poisoned child and enraged him with his diagnosis. Meanwhile, Nalan Yanran rushed to confront Xiao Yan at Misty Cloud Sect, while Ge Ye realized Yun Yun had prepared herself to see Xiao Yan and tried to keep Nalan Yanran from interfering.

• Gu He mistook Hai Bodong for a child named Huo Yuhao and promised to cure his supposed poison, prompting Hai Bodong to erupt in fury and freeze the room.
• Ge Ye told Nalan Yanran that Xiao Yan had arrived at Misty Cloud Sect, and she hurried toward the side hall before hearing his explanation.
• Ge Ye went to Yun Yun to report Xiao Yan's arrival and found her dressed up and putting away cosmetics.
• Yun Yun blushed at the news, told Ge Ye to bring Xiao Yan to the main sect hall, and hurried away to meet him.
• Ge Ye feared that Nalan Yanran might disrupt Yun Yun's meeting with Xiao Yan and ordered a disciple to bring Xiao Yan to Yun Yun alone.

Xiao Yan visited the Misty Cloud Sect, where his accidental remark about proposing marriage provoked Nalan Yanran before he clarified that he would never regret ending their engagement. The Sect Master summoned Xiao Yan alone, leaving Nalan Yanran and Gu He surprised.

• Elder Ge Ye hurried to find Grand Elder Yun Leng and seek his intervention.
• Gu He spoke with Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong, but Nalan Yanran burst into the hall and confronted Xiao Yan after he blurted out that he had come to propose marriage.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Hai Bodong watched the confrontation while Gu He tried to understand their history; Xiao Yan explained that he would never regret breaking off the engagement.
• Xiao Yan called Gu He his brother to redirect Nalan Yanran's attention, and she asked whether they were related.
• A Misty Cloud Sect disciple announced that the Sect Master wanted to see Xiao Yan alone, surprising Nalan Yanran and Gu He.

Xiao Yan was summoned to meet Yun Yun alone, prompting Gu He and Nalan Yanran to suspect he intended to propose to her. In the Misty Cloud Sect’s main hall, Xiao Yan declared his love and asked Yun Yun to marry him, and she accepted.

• A disciple told Xiao Yan that Yun Yun wanted to see him alone, and Gu He confronted him about his earlier claim that he had come to propose marriage.
• Xiao Yi Xian restrained Nalan Yanran while Hai Bodong distracted Gu He, allowing the group to accompany Xiao Yan to the main hall.
• Gu He joined them, and Xiao Yan realized that Gu He probably loved Yun Yun as they made their way to meet her.
• Xiao Yan saw Yun Yun waiting in the main hall, boldly declared that he had come to fulfill his promise, and asked her to marry him.
• Yun Yun blushed and accepted Xiao Yan’s proposal.

Yun Shan emerged from seclusion as a Dou Zong and agreed to Xiao Yan marrying Yun Yun, provided Xiao Yan joined the Misty Cloud Sect. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao continued his breakthrough while learning about spiritual arrays and began trying to condense a spiritual seal.

• Yun Shan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect's main hall after breaking through to Dou Zong, interrupting Xiao Yan's marriage proposal to Yun Yun.
• Yun Shan recognized Xiao Yan's strength, accepted Yun Yun's feelings, and offered his blessing if Xiao Yan joined the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan immediately agreed to join the Misty Cloud Sect, delighting Yun Yun.
• Huo Yuhao cultivated toward Dou Emperor while dozens of his divine-sense avatars worked around Jia Nan Academy.
• The Guardian Mirror explained spiritual seals and how spiritual arrays used them to guide energy from heaven and earth.
• Huo Yuhao's avatar focused its energy at his fingertip and began attempting to condense a spiritual seal.

Huo Yuhao condensed three hundred thousand spirit seals, stunning the Guardian Mirror, then activated one and unleashed a blast that struck Jia Nan Academy’s defensive barriers. The chapter ended with Wu Tian and the Enforcement Team recovering from the destructive sound waves, unaware of what had triggered them.

• Huo Yuhao used heaven-and-earth energy to condense a vast sea of spirit seals, leaving the Guardian Mirror in shock.
• Huo Yuhao counted three hundred thousand seals and judged that his Dou Qi, not his soul or divine sense, had limited the number.
• Huo Yuhao touched one spirit seal and sent Dou Qi into it, prompting the Guardian Mirror to scream for him to stop.
• An ice-blue pillar and a devastating roar erupted near Jia Nan Academy’s Outer Academy as Wu Tian sounded the alarm.
• Wu Tian’s defensive arrays absorbed the sound waves, and he confirmed that the Enforcement Team had survived with only ringing ears.

Huo Yuhao’s experiment triggered an explosion that devastated a mountain range and created a slowly expanding spatial vortex. After reassuring Jia Nan Academy’s elders, he learned from the Guardian Mirror that the dangerous vortex might be useful for creating a valuable treasure.

• Huo Yuhao appeared before the Outer Academy elders, dismissed the defensive barriers, and admitted that his experiment had caused a small accident.
• The Guardian Mirror scolded Huo Yuhao for unleashing power close to the early Supreme level and warned that the blast could have destroyed Jia Nan Academy.
• Huo Yuhao examined the crater left by the explosion and broke off a piece of its unusually hard crystalline wall.
• Hu Gan and Wu Tian saw a spatial vortex consuming fragments of space and began to develop an instinctive understanding of space.
• Huo Yuhao suspected that the Dou Qi black hole in his divine-sense avatar had anchored the vortex, but the Guardian Mirror urged him not to repair it yet because it could help create a valuable treasure.

Huo Yuhao explained that he wanted to make Jia Nan Academy the true number one academy on the Battle Qi Continent, while the Guardian Mirror questioned how the plane could support Dou Sheng and Dou Emperor cultivators. After learning Xiao Yan’s wedding was one month away, Huo Yuhao planned a surprise for his younger brother and sought spirit-array diagrams, but the Guardian Mirror’s boastful explanation was interrupted when the Ice Flame Phoenix appeared.

• Huo Yuhao told the Guardian Mirror that he wanted to make Jia Nan Academy the true number one academy on the continent, and the Guardian Mirror argued that the plane’s energy should not allow realms above Sovereign.
• Huo Yuhao said he had personally seen a Dou Sheng and that one would arrive soon, while the Guardian Mirror reconsidered its understanding of the plane’s cultivation ceiling.
• Xiao Yi Xian informed Huo Yuhao that Xiao Yan’s wedding would take place in one month and that Gu He was waiting for Yun Yun’s wedding before leaving the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Huo Yuhao said he expected to break through to Dou Emperor in five days and asked the Guardian Mirror for spirit-array diagrams to prepare an unforgettable surprise for Xiao Yan.
• The Guardian Mirror bragged that it knew spirit-gathering arrays of every rank, but the Ice Flame Phoenix suddenly appeared beside Huo Yuhao and frightened it.

Huo Yuhao asked the Guardian Mirror whether it knew of a ninth-grade Spirit-Gathering Array, while students at Jia Nan Academy began recruiting for the Artifact Alliance. Yan Hao revealed that Huo Yuhao was the alliance’s leader and that their assessment spiritual artifacts had been made by the students themselves.

• The Nine Li Ice Flame phoenix attacked the Guardian Mirror for wearing Huo Yuhao’s face, forcing it to return to orb form.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Guardian Mirror about ninth-grade Spirit-Gathering Arrays, and it said even the Five Great Academies’ best students could not invite a Saint-grade Grandmaster.
• Lu Mu interviewed Liu Qing about losing to Han Yue and teased him about supposedly holding back because he admired her, so Liu Qing sent him flying into the ice lake.
• Yan Hao recruited Liu Qing into the Artifact Alliance, offering custom spiritual artifacts to its first ten members.
• Yan Hao told Liu Qing that Huo Yuhao was the alliance’s true leader and that the spiritual artifacts used in the assessment had been made by the students themselves.

Liu Qing joined the Artifact Alliance after seeing how many students were learning to forge spiritual artifacts, and he decided to seek out Huo Yuhao with Han Yue. Deep in the forest, Huo Yuhao’s divine sense avatars recruited a giant bear magical beast, as his plan to gather powerful beasts continued.

• Yan Hao showed Liu Qing a fourth-grade spiritual artifact warhammer and brought him to the Artifact Alliance’s busy headquarters.
• Liu Qing learned that Huo Yuhao had made artifact-forging knowledge public and allowed students to take it back to their clans.
• Han Yue invited Liu Qing to accompany her to find Huo Yuhao, while Yan Hao teased Liu Qing about rumors involving Han Yue.
• A divine sense avatar of Huo Yuhao awakened the intelligence of a giant bear magical beast, which pledged its clan’s loyalty to him.
• Huo Yuhao continued sending divine sense avatars into the mountains to recruit every magical beast above the fourth rank.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated a new method for making spirit artifacts by replacing spirit liquid with Dou Crystal veins, then gave Liu Qing the successful third-grade spear. Inspired by the experiment, Huo Yuhao prepared to test high-grade materials with different characteristics.

• Huo Yuhao met Lin Xiuya, Han Yue, Yan Hao, and Liu Qing, then explained how to prevent overlapping spirit inscriptions from conflicting.
• Yan Hao raised the problem that their simplified spirit-liquid method could not support higher-grade spirit artifacts.
• Huo Yuhao forged a third-grade spear and used a miniature Dou Crystal to connect and activate its spirit inscriptions without spirit liquid.
• Liu Qing tested the spear, impressed the others with his technique, and received it as a welcome gift to the Artifact Alliance.
• Huo Yuhao began preparing further experiments with high-grade ores and metals, while the Guardian Mirror reflected on the importance of a treasure's characteristics.

Huo Yuhao balanced plans for a Spirit Gathering Array with experiments in artifact refinement, while the Guardian Mirror warned that an array above fifth grade would overwhelm Jia Nan Academy’s students. After confirming that Battle Crystals could stabilize complex energy structures, Huo Yuhao turned to a new artifact-refining approach using non-spiritual ores.

• Huo Yuhao’s spiritual projection discussed the Spirit Gathering Array with the Guardian Mirror and the Ice Flame Phoenix, who bickered over a model of Jia Nan Academy.
• The Guardian Mirror warned Huo Yuhao that a seventh-grade array would crush the academy’s students and elders, so he agreed to limit the array to fifth grade.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed that Battle Crystals were stable enough to support complex energy structures and began a final simulation of the array.
• Huo Yuhao showed Yan Hao and the others special ores without spiritual fluctuations and explained that artifact refinement should not depend on scarce spiritual materials or hunting magical beasts.

Huo Yuhao devised a way to give spiritual artifacts circulating battle crystal veins, allowing them to absorb and cultivate energy from heaven and earth. His first creation, a Sinking Stone ruler, came alive and grew stronger, leaving the Guardian Mirror stunned and indignant.

• Huo Yuhao explained that attribute-enhancing spiritual inscriptions had limited effects on his strength.
• Huo Yuhao combined an Earth Crystal core with Sinking Stone and formed battle crystal veins inside the material.
• Huo Yuhao injected battle qi into the gray ruler, causing it to float, absorb earth-attribute energy, and steadily strengthen its heaviness trait.
• Huo Yuhao argued that the ruler could cultivate like a cultivator, while the Guardian Mirror insisted it was unlike any treasure from the Great Thousand World.
• Huo Yuhao teased the Guardian Mirror about whether it could cultivate in the same way, and it roared before retreating into a corner.

Huo Yuhao’s gray giant ruler completed its transformation and faced a heavenly tribulation, which it endured effortlessly. He later forged more spirit artifacts for Lin Xiuya and the others, concluding that only seventh-grade artifacts would necessarily attract tribulations, and gave the artifacts to them as thanks for managing the Artifact Alliance.

• The gray giant ruler absorbed a surge of origin energy, awakened a newborn will, and drew a heavenly tribulation.
• Huo Yuhao let the ruler face the lightning bolt by itself, and it absorbed the strike without damage before the clouds dispersed.
• The Guardian Mirror questioned the purpose of the tribulation, and Huo Yuhao explained that the world treated the ruler kindly because its birth would strengthen the Battle Qi Continent.
• The ruler circled Huo Yuhao and hovered above his head, while the Guardian Mirror resented losing its favored spot.
• Huo Yuhao taught Lin Xiuya and the others about battle crystals and forged several more spirit artifacts, none of which attracted a tribulation.
• Huo Yuhao guessed that seventh-grade spirit artifacts would necessarily face tribulations and gave the newly forged artifacts to the four members of the group as thanks.

Liu Qing vowed to help Huo Yuhao spread Spirit Artifacts after receiving a fifth-grade spear. In Jia Ma Empire, Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian registered for the Alchemist Convention, where Gu He announced a new prize and Xiao Yan learned Xiao Yi Xian would be his rival.

• Liu Qing received a fifth-grade spear from Huo Yuhao and promised to help spread Spirit Artifacts through the Artifact Alliance.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian queued to register for the Jia Ma Empire Alchemist Convention, where they encountered Gu He.
• Gu He announced that the champion would receive personal alchemy instruction from him, and Xiao Yan accepted his challenge to compete.
• Yao Chen joked about Xiao Yan and Gu He dueling over love, then warned Xiao Yan that Xiao Yi Xian was also a rival.
• Yao Chen took Xiao Yi Xian away for two days of special training, leaving Xiao Yan to prepare alone.

Huo Yuhao surprised Xiao Yan outside Jia Ma Imperial City and overwhelmed him in a spar despite Xiao Yan’s improved strength and fused Heavenly Flame. After pretending to be badly burned, Huo Yuhao caught Xiao Yan off guard and left him furious.

• Huo Yuhao transported Xiao Yan from the streets to the outskirts of Jia Ma Imperial City, where Xiao Yan recognized him and challenged him to spar.
• Xiao Yan attacked with his Whirlwind Fire Fist, but Huo Yuhao stopped the blow and sent him crashing into a mountainside.
• Xiao Yan escaped Huo Yuhao’s blade aura with his fused dark crimson Heavenly Flame and revealed that his Burning Incantation had reached mid Earth-tier.
• Xiao Yan trapped Huo Yuhao in a fire net and fire tornadoes, then prepared the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler when he believed Huo Yuhao was badly burned.
• Huo Yuhao seized Xiao Yan with a giant ice-blue palm, took back the healing pills and Profound Heavy Ruler, and revealed that his apparent injuries had been an act.
• Xiao Yan climbed to his feet and angrily cursed Huo Yuhao.

Xiao Yan tested his fused Heavenly Flames against Huo Yuhao, culminating in a clash between Buddha's Fury Lotus and Huo Yuhao's saber techniques. Huo Yuhao dismantled the attack and left Xiao Yan exhausted, while noting that the lotus needed less preparation time.

• Xiao Yan fired Double Fire Feathers, and Huo Yuhao countered with Octagonal Omnidirectional Spikes before cutting apart the remaining feathers with Dragon-Phoenix Guiding.
• Xiao Yan formed and launched Buddha's Fury Lotus, revealing an intent born from the fusion of his spiritual power and dou qi.
• Huo Yuhao controlled the chaotic energy from their earlier clash and used layered saber radiance to weaken the lotus's stability.
• Huo Yuhao pierced Buddha's Fury Lotus with Unparalleled Ice Extremity, separating its flames and greatly reducing the resulting explosion.
• Huo Yuhao emerged unharmed and told the exhausted, battered Xiao Yan that Buddha's Fury Lotus needed a shorter preparation time.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Yao Chen and the shrunken Hai Bodong at the Mittel Auction House, then gave Xiao Yi Xian a necklace and went with her to explore Jia Ma Imperial City's night market. Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Hai Bodong secretly followed them as the pair walked together late into the night.

• Huo Yuhao laughed at Hai Bodong's childlike appearance and held him back with one finger while asking about his transformation.
• Yao Chen lamented Huo Yuhao's rapid improvement, and Huo Yuhao explained that a gift from a world's plane had helped him grow stronger.
• Huo Yuhao gave Xiao Yi Xian a necklace, but Yao Chen carried Hai Bodong away when he began criticizing it.
• Xiao Yi Xian took Huo Yuhao to the night market and talked with him as they walked hand in hand through the city.
• Xiao Yan, Hai Bodong, and Yao Chen secretly watched the pair, while Hai Bodong urged Xiao Yan to follow them.

Huo Yuhao completed a fifth-grade Spirit Gathering Formation over Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy, triggering a wave of breakthroughs. After Huo Yuhao asked for the Fallen Heart Flame as thanks, Su Qian agreed to give it to him.

• A massive barrier formed over the Inner Academy and drew in pure world's energy, filling the area with dense energy mist.
• Liu Yang used the surge of energy to break through from peak Dou Ling to Dou Wang, while Huo Yuhao's divine sense suppressed the disturbance.
• Other top Strong Ranking students broke through to Dou Wang, several elders advanced to Dou Emperor, and many students entered Dou Ling.
• Su Qian arrived and offered to stand guard while Huo Yuhao watched over the cultivating students.
• Huo Yuhao asked Su Qian for the Fallen Heart Flame, and Su Qian agreed.

Huo Yuhao descended into the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower with Su Qian and prepared to subdue the Fallen Heart Flame. He revealed that he had broken through to Dou Emperor and explained how his superior soul power and control of external energy let him defeat stronger opponents.

• Su Qian recalled how the Fallen Heart Flame had benefited Jia Nan Academy while becoming a threat under its seals, and Huo Yuhao considered ways to preserve the tower's tempering effect.
• Su Qian sent the two tower-guarding elders away so he and Huo Yuhao could handle the Fallen Heart Flame alone.
• Huo Yuhao's true body arrived, and he told the Guardian Mirror that his secluded cultivation had ended and he had reached Dou Emperor.
• Su Qian asked how Huo Yuhao had defeated a high-level Dou Zong at the peak of Dou Wang, and Huo Yuhao credited his stronger Dou Qi, soul power, and control over the energy of heaven and earth.

Huo Yuhao and Su Qian entered the lava chamber to confront the Fallen Heart Flame, which attacked Huo Yuhao and was badly weakened by the Nine Li Ice Flame. Huo Yuhao froze the fleeing flame and its lava surroundings, while the Guardian Mirror sensed something beneath the lava.

• Su Qian opened the energy barrier, and he and Huo Yuhao entered the scorching chamber where the Fallen Heart Flame was hidden beneath a sea of lava.
• The Fallen Heart Flame erupted from the lava and attacked Huo Yuhao, drawn to the Nine Li Ice Flame within him.
• Huo Yuhao sent out the Ice Flame Phoenix, which fought the fire python and devoured much of its essence while Huo Yuhao told it to leave some for someone else.
• The wounded Fallen Heart Flame tried to escape into the lava, but Huo Yuhao froze it and the surrounding lava in place.
• The Guardian Mirror noticed something beneath the lava and alerted Huo Yuhao.